The following awards were presented at the St. Michael’s Hospital Department of Medicine’s 29th Annual Higgins Day:
Oral Presentations
First place (H. Patrick Higgins Memorial Scholarship Award of Merit): Nicola Goldberg, “Does Routine Echocardiography Affect Management of Stroke (DREAMS)—Analysis from the General Medicine Inpatient (GEMINI) study” (supervisors Mike Fralick, Fahad Razak and Amol Verma)
Second place: Anthony Lott, “POPPEE: Purchasing Online Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Pills to Evaluate Equivalence”
Third place: Lucas Djelic, “Impact of Automatic Infectious Diseases Consultation for Patients with Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia”
Poster Presentations
First place: Samantha Liauw, “Global Health Education at Home: An Anatomy Program for Haitian Medical Students at a Canadian Medical School”
Second place: Hassan Masoom, “Investigation for Venous Thromboembolism in Syncope: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study”
Third place: Yayi Huang, “Factors Affecting 90-Day Readmission to a General Medical Unit in the Homeless Population”
